How many APs is too many?

amandap28
Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:18:35 +0000

Kudos to you for the self study! Honestly, I don’t think I would be able to study all those subjects by myself like you can. :)

What would you be taking instead of AP Psych then for your senior year? An “easy” course? Are you going for the easy senior year feel? Although I am a senior in high school, I feel like colleges won’t like us slacking in our senior year. So if there aren’t any other challenging courses you would be able to take, I’d save it for senior year. Or, if your state has a program like Youth Options (I’m from Wisconsin), you may be allowed to take classes from a nearby college.

There really isn’t a spot to say you’ve self-studied (in the Common App at least), so for the self-studied courses, I’d get a guidance counselor to write about how you went above and beyond to do that. You can self report your AP scores if you want though (on the Common App), and then colleges could see you’ve taken those tests even though they are not on your transcript as classes you took in high school. If you choose not to submit your tests, I do not believe there is any other way for colleges to know you’ve self studied. Maybe unless written in a report by your guidance counselor? I’d ask him/her about that.

13 APs is awesome (well at least in my opinion), I myself will have 14 done by the end of this school year.